The great book and excellent film is the latest to suffer from a modern adaptation to tick all boxes and ignore quality as a result
This really is hard to watch and the wooden acting and desperate attempts to modernise the tale take away from the story and leave you you yearning to watch the original adaption from the first few minutes.
A real shame as was so looking forward to this but the casting and attempts to bring it up to date don't work in any sense . It's like taking the Godfather and remaking it with the cast of. Hollyoaks and trying to throw in a few up to date swear words to suit a modern audience.
What was a great opportunity to remake such a great piece of work fails miserable, F bombs, a few grittier scenes don't make this any more watchable than poorly acted and adapted piece of TV that this is. Who, decades after watching the original will ever forget the children from the black and white film that still sticks with you after all these years? This you just want to forget as yet another cringe worthy attempt to do what TV does so badly today, mess with a classic and choose quantity over quality where it matters.
If you've not seen the original you may find this bearable, if not then don't expect too much. It really is one of the hardest watches and incredibly poorly cast. The children are sadly completely forgettable which was the cornerstone of the book and original version. Horrible effort.
This really is hard to watch and the wooden acting and desperate attempts to modernise the tale take away from the story and leave you you yearning to watch the original adaption from the first few minutes.
A real shame as was so looking forward to this but the casting and attempts to bring it up to date don't work in any sense . It's like taking the Godfather and remaking it with the cast of. Hollyoaks and trying to throw in a few up to date swear words to suit a modern audience.
What was a great opportunity to remake such a great piece of work fails miserable, F bombs, a few grittier scenes don't make this any more watchable than poorly acted and adapted piece of TV that this is. Who, decades after watching the original will ever forget the children from the black and white film that still sticks with you after all these years? This you just want to forget as yet another cringe worthy attempt to do what TV does so badly today, mess with a classic and choose quantity over quality where it matters.
If you've not seen the original you may find this bearable, if not then don't expect too much. It really is one of the hardest watches and incredibly poorly cast. The children are sadly completely forgettable which was the cornerstone of the book and original version. Horrible effort.
